by admin | Dec 21, 2007 | Public Policy, retrograde |
I was led to Anthony Bradley’s post on shattered family dreams by P6’s post. I am not dealing with the exact same issues, but I’ve got to say that I’ve been dealing with similar ones, about my job, about my capacity to do for my family, and for...
by admin | Dec 14, 2007 | Black Family, NPR, The Mass Media |
Now that the semester is over, I’m back at the Barbershop. In this episode, me, Jimi Izrael, Reuben Navarette, and Roland Martin talk about among other things the increasing rate babies born to single mothers. It got pretty heated, as this is something I feel...
by admin | Dec 13, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, Urban Politics |
The last post was uncited because I received its contents from an email I received. But I now know who the author is, and what he’s doing. Phillip Jackson is the Executive Director of The Black Star Project. Although as I noted in a response to him I think his...
by admin | Dec 11, 2007 | Black Family, Black Power, Education, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Got this from a brother on a listserv:America has lost a generation of Black boys There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of Black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics,...
by admin | Dec 10, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Reading the story Killing for Respect which is the first about black people that I’ve ever seen Digged. Note that the lack of family is mentioned in several different ways, poverty is only mentioned once.
by admin | Dec 7, 2007 | Education, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
I assigned a midterm for my urban politics class that had the students go into Baltimore and write about their perspective. Here is a video that some of the students made about their experience. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBFd3X_hfs[/youtube]
by admin | Dec 5, 2007 | Announcements, Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
50 Cent “Ski Mask Way” [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Afpt_pCvDGo[/youtube] Japanese Rap Group “On Boot Street” [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=7H14nuSdE8w[/youtube] Lotfitv “Fisical Danger”...
by admin | Nov 27, 2007 | Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73QvsWKF7s[/youtube] Ok. So what I meant was there would be less SUBSTANTIVE blogging. (not like there was a lot to begin with.)
by admin | Nov 25, 2007 | Culture, The Mass Media |
by admin | Nov 25, 2007 | Announcements
Miles to go before I sleep. I haven’t posted in a while in internet time. I am having a very hard time as the end of the semester approaches, juggling various responsibilities. I’ll be back in a bit…but if it isn’t already clear regular...
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